By Guest Author Rasa Fumagalli, J.D., MSCC, CMSP-F – Director of MSP Compliance Services The nature of the Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) has evolved over the years since the 2001 Patel Memo. That evolution has seen us move from every WCMSA that met the…
By Guest Author, Evelynn Passino, J.D. – Executive Director of Settlement Solutions National Pooled Trust If your client has public benefits, you have probably identified that there could be injury-related liens which must be addressed, or the need for a Medicare Set-Aside, but that is…
By Guest Author Rasa Fumagalli, J.D., MSCC, CMSP-F – Director of MSP Compliance Services Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance settlement terms utilized by defendants are often overly broad in nature. The recent opinion, Kupolati v. Village of Timber Creek Association, 2021 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS…
A Utah woman recently filed a new Instant Pot Pressure Cooker lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. She claims that after using the pressure cooker as instructed, she was seriously injured. She seeks compensatory damages. NOTE: the case has a…
On Tuesday, May 25, two former Louisiana agricultural workers suffering from Parkinson’s disease filed historic lawsuits against the manufacturers of the herbicide, paraquat. The plaintiffs, including a former LSU AgCenter extension agent, worked in the Louisiana ag industry for decades and were exposed to the…
Up to 1,000,000 Michigan residents may now be eligible to have their criminal record expunged after Michigan’s new “Clean Slate” law went into effect on April 11, 2021. Eligible offenses: Expanding eligibility to up to three felonies and an unlimited number of misdemeanors, with certain…
The recent unsuccessful attempt by Zimmer Biomet Inc. to undo a $3.55 million verdict regarding its defective M2a Magnum hip implant shows how the company continues to evade responsibility for the pain and suffering inflicted on patients by their flawed and dangerous implant. A federal…
When an Austrian man had the wrong leg amputated this month, journalists and researchers took a look at medical mistakes, which were thought to be the third leading cause of death in the U.S. prior to 2020. “Human error” resulted in a man having the…
In the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Biomet Inc. failed in its bid to undo the latest verdict against the company regarding its defective M2a Magnum hip prosthesis. The $3.55 million verdict had gone to Lori Nicholson, an Iowa woman who…
On May 5, 2021, Peloton announced the recall of about 125,000 Tread+ Treadmills, plus another recall of another about 1,050 Tread Treadmills. Consumers are advised to immediately stop using these products and contact Peloton for a full refund or another qualified remedy. These recalls came…